• Own the economics of private cloud infrastructure—especially storage and data lifecycle costs. • Build transparent models for private cloud storage and infrastructure costs. • Establish unit economics (e.g., cost per TB-month, growth rate, utilization). • Stand up data aging and retention reporting by product and customer requirement. • Identify and drive purge, tiering, and lifecycle improvements to reclaim capacity. • Forecast capacity needs and cost implications based on real growth patterns. • Challenge “we need all of this data” assumptions with facts and options.